Kim Gordon and Bill Nace perform as Body/Head, presented by UPEND.

Event information and tickets: https://upend.la/

A performance by Aine Nakamura of sounding, poetry, movement, and set design. Doors 7:30pm; performance 8:00pm.

Event information and tickets: https://www.oracleegg.com/calendar/aine-nakamura

Every order decides what belongs and what is left outside. Order and Its Others listens at the margins through works that organize sound, power, freedom, and collectivity in radically different ways. The evening opens with a triptych of works that place the individual body, voice, and imagination under pressure. Sofia Gubaidulina’s physically charged Dancer on a Tightrope, Gabriella Smith’s vivid and propulsive Carrot Revolution, and Luigi Nono’s La fabbrica illuminata move between precarity, transformation, and resistance, asking how a person might assert freedom within structures that seek to contain or overwhelm them. The second half of the program is devoted to Louis Andriessen’s De Staat, a forceful meditation on music, politics, and the ensemble as a social body. Written in response to Plato’s Republic, De Staat takes up the ancient claim that music can threaten the state by turning the score into a political argument that doubts its own power even as it makes it: can music ever be free from the institutions and ideologies that decide what gets played, who gets to play it, and how we listen? https://www.redcat.org/events/democracy-sessions-order-and-its-others